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4E, active externalism, active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, mark rowlands, michael madary, neurophilosophy, phenomenology, Phenomenology of Perception, philosophy of mind, social cognition

Madary reviews Rowlands

Check out this review (scroll down) by Michael Madary of Mark Rowlands’ The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology. One of the latest labels to emerge for anti-classical (or non-Cartesian, or post-cognitivist) cognitive science is “4E.” The four Es here are the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended approaches to cognition. Since there are…

Aristotle, david lewis, david wiggins, derek parfit, identity, Kripke, Leibnitz, metaphysics, personal identity, Putnam, quine, sameness and substance, sortals, sydney Shoemaker

Sameness and Substance Renewed

It’s been ten years since the release of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance Renewed. I notice that it has gone into a second edition, which is good news. This book must rate as one of my favourite works and I believe is somewhat neglected (I originally read S&S and was impressed that reading S&SR didn’t…

cognitive systems, collective intentionality, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, group cognition, group minds, mark of the cognitive, neurophilosophy, philosophy compass, philosophy of mind, robert rupert, social epistemology, social facts, social ontology

Empirical Arguments for Group Minds: A Critical Appraisal

Look out for Rob Rupert’s forthcoming survey for Philosophy Compass. (Thanks to Rob for the heads up). Abstract This entry addresses the question of group minds, by focusing specifically on empirical arguments for group cognition and group cognitive states. Two kinds of positive argument are presented and critically evaluated: the argument from individually unintended effects and the…

active externalism, Andy Clark, cognitive science, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, edwin hutchins, extended mind, externalism, Michael Wheeler, parity principle, philosophy of mind, robert rupert, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

Symposium on Clark’s “Supersizing”

I’ve only just come across this wonderful symposium (Philosophical Studies Volume 152, Number 3 / February 2011, from p. 413) on Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. The line-up: Précis of Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action, and cognitive extension (Oxford University Press, NY, 2008) Andy Clark In search of clarity about parity…

biology, cognitive science, complexity, consciousness, dan zahavi, Dennett, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, empty mind, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, francesco varela, Mike Wheeler, Mind in Life, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Tobias Schlicht

Symposium on Mind in Life

Check out this special issue (Ed. Tobias Schlicht) of Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life. Participants include Dennett, Grush, Hutto, Siewert, Van Gulick, Wheeler, Zahavi and others. Journal of Consciousness Studies